Phineas C. Dummer

Phineas Cook Dummer (28 October 1797-14 September 1875) was Mayor of Jersey City from April 1844 to 20 April 1848, succeeding Peter Bentley Sr. and preceding Henry C. Taylor.

Biography
Phineas Cook Dummer was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1797, and he served in the New York militia during the War of 1812 before moving to Jersey City with his wife in 1824. He came to own a glassware company, and he served as Mayor from 1844 to 1848 and as Chief of the Fire Department in 1850. After his company went out of business during the American Civil War, he served as City Collector of Taxes, and President Abraham Lincoln appointed him Deputy Collector of Customs of the Port of New York, serving until his death in 1875.